Thesaurus Thursday

Happy Thursday... one more day away from the always anticipated weekend!  My apologies for the lack of posts this week, but throughout the weekend and next week you can bet that I'll have some great content.  I'll be finishing Kathryn Stockett's The Help at the end of the day, which has been a real pleasure, and would love to bring some great thoughts for discussion to the table.  Next week, I'll be attending Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals book tour and will be taking lots of notes to share with the blogging world.  Furthermore, I'm happy to say that I have some very fun posts that will help Atlantans learn more about the book stores in their area, but I can't spoil the entire surprise, so you'll have to sit tight!


I've got a long list of words compiled for this entertaining meme, so many that it makes it truly difficult to decide which word I'll choose next.  So here we go... another word picked from my endeavors with Memory Wall: Stories, paroxysm.


Paroxysm: Noun; 15th century. 1. a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : CONVULSION. 2. a suddent violent emotion or action : OUTBURST.


What I would say: The paroxysm by the protestors, at the start of the parade, frightened the children. 


Okay, I've got to find some more positive words. There's always next time...

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Thesaurus Thursday

 

Another week, another Thesaurus Thursday!  And I'm excited to share that I've got quite the list going with all the new books I've started... so, hopefully you'll be back for more!  Like ineffable, I really like the sound of truculent; and I just happened to see this beautiful string of letters forming this overwhemingly rich word in Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, which I finished on Monday evening.  I immediately added it to my Thursday list so I could share all of it's possibly meanings.

Truculent, and it's uses- Adjective. Circa 1540 (it's old). 1. feeling or displaying ferocity: CRUEL, SAVAGE. 2. deadly, destructive. 3. scathingly harsh; VITRIOLIC., and 4. aggressively self-assertive: BELLIGERENT. 

I would say: Such truculent actions only improve one's credibility in the eyes of the heartless. 

Hmm... That's a little depressive. Give me some suggestions! Nothing wrong with sharpening the ol' vocabulary a bit, right?

Note: Image above can be viewed at it's original home here.

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